Kite day! Kite Day!! KITE DAY!!!!

Here are some shots from Kite Day yesterday!  This is probably one of my absolute FAVORITE traditions we have started since I have worked here!  DISCLAIMER: I got the idea from student teaching in Round Rock Regional Day School Program... Beg, borrow or steal, right?

My behavior student was suspended in less than an hour of being at school on Friday (holy cow, I know) so he was not there to participate.  After being incredibly emotional and overwhelmed, I did my best to keep it together until the end of the day (I was beyond exhausted last night).

Enjoy! :)

<>< Laura {ilovesinglanguage}

Science was SUPER FUN...

Highlight of my week: AMPHIBIANS!!! {plus KITE DAY on Friday!!}

Amphibians.  Whoa.  We played with a frog/toad all morning.  It.  Was.  Awesome!!!  Sooooo cool that we did our experiment with Mr. Froad (we kept debating on if it was a frog or toad.... so we ended the discussion by combining the names) AGAIN with the third and fourth grade Deaf Ed. kiddos.  

If you put a frog into ice-cold water... the frog (a.k.a. Mr. Froad) will HIBERNATE!  That's right.  He went from jumping and hopping around in the bucket to slowly moving.... and then shut his eyes.  Radical!!!  THEN!!!  After we made predictions about what would happen when we placed him in the room temperature water I moved him over.  **DISCLAIMER-I was completely wigged out over the THOUGHT of Mr. Froad being dead instead of hibernating, so I froze... haha.  No pun intended.  My FABULOUS co-worker and teaching BFF stepped in to save the day and moved Mr. Froad to the room temperature water.  NOW!  Mr. Froad totally started slowly swimming around and then jumping!  It was seriously AMAZING!!  Thank you to my wonderful Aunt Carla for the fellow amphibian from her backyard and the last minute experiment from when she was a first grade teacher!!!!  With our Deaf Ed. SLP on campus Thursday, I had kids pulled out the rest of the afternoon (and some behavioral incidents that took me away from the room the entire science time).... so we will be writing all about Mr. Froad tomorrow in our science journals.  I'm stoked. :) :) :) :)  

Here is a picture from our experiment!  Apparently when I updated my iPhone, I did something wonky and lost all of my awesome pictures and video.  Eh.  Technology sometimes makes me want to spit. Luckily, I sent my mom and Aunt a picture of him "hibernating"... so here that one is.  I will just have to do this experiment again in the future and make sure my documentation is imported correctly!!!!

Voila!

<>< Laura {ilovesignlanguage}